BloodyCactus wrote:

NOS Gigabyte i-ram! I saw it in the background of a book on ebay so I asked the seller and bam, $5! Guess I need to work on parts for a newer build than my 8088+486.. got 4x 1gb sticks coming to fill it out. Battery is probably toast but I dont care about that.

Great deal! I've always wanted one of those RAM drives. There's a similar product by ACARD that backs up the RAM into a CF card when you power it off and restores it when you turn the computer back on.

CelGen wrote:

These three bundles of coax are the first step towards building a 10BASE5 network. Next up is sourcing the Vampire Taps.

That's really going retro. Kind of reminds be when we had DOOM LAN parties, except we used 10base2 with t-connectors, terminators, cheap ne2000 isa cards. No expensive hubs or switches required. Good times.

Brickpad wrote:

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Brickpad wrote:

Jealous here! I've been wanting to get my hands on one of those IBM servers for a while now, but they either can't be found, or sellers are asking ridiculous prices - one of which is going for $2,000US.

Maybe your lucky day? Just hunt down the missing parts.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-PS-2-Model-80-858 … =item1eb68d044d

Thanks! Unfortunately the seller does not ship to the US. Also, I searched that very model and that listing does not come up. It must have something to do with shipping.

sf78 wrote:

Really?! I was offered one of these for free 5 years ago, but the thing weighs a ton so I didn't bother with it. 😲

Yup. The listing is right here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-PS-2-9585-Tower-4 … aUAAOSwAvJW~FkQ

I personally think they're out of their minds. Sure, it comes with the 5.25" and CD-ROM drive, but there's no way one can justify that kind of price tag.

yea, that this is worth $200 shipped. That said, I REALLY want the cd rom bezel. Those things are practically unobtanium.

Got this little devil in the mail today, 15 US Dollars shipped. Sold an AWE64 Value in order to make this happen.
Not bad, a soundcard for this. I made just enough from the soundcard to pay for the card and shipping.
It looks brand new and never used. I can't visually see any teethmarks on the AGP connector.
Though they appear on a photo, so it must, at least, have been tested in order to be sold.
And there is no trace of dust whatsoever on the card. I think this is my best deal this year so far. 😀

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Got this little devil in the mail today, 15 US Dollars shipped. Sold an AWE64 Value in order to make this happen. Not bad, a sou […]
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Got this little devil in the mail today, 15 US Dollars shipped. Sold an AWE64 Value in order to make this happen.
Not bad, a soundcard for this. I made just enough from the soundcard to pay for the card and shipping.
It looks brand new and never used. I can't visually see any teethmarks on the AGP connector.
Though they appear on a photo, so it must, at least, have been tested in order to be sold.
And there is no trace of dust whatsoever on the card. I think this is my best deal this year so far. 😀

Really like the G400Max, great card for the time. Just a shame about it's OpenGL Performance. Great image quality and good DirectX performance. On par with the TNT2 Ultra I think.

foey wrote:

Really like the G400Max, great card for the time. Just a shame about it's OpenGL Performance. Great image quality and good DirectX performance. On par with the TNT2 Ultra I think.

Gotten the card, in order to get closer to finish my collection of 1999 cards.
I am still missing some cards in order to complete what I regard as great cards.

Right now I am thinking, if I should get rid of some more hardware and use the
money to get a V3-3000 or Banshee.

I don't know about G400-Max performance. I tested it in my P-III-500 a couple of minutes ago.
It is flying in UT99 and NFS-Porche. One heck of a card. Love it.
It really shines on the VGA signal strength, and the image quality is top notch.
I know it can crank out more. What might be the sweet spot for G400-Max.

BloodyCactus wrote:

NOS Gigabyte i-ram! I saw it in the background of a book on ebay so I asked the seller and bam, $5! Guess I need to work on part […]
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NOS Gigabyte i-ram! I saw it in the background of a book on ebay so I asked the seller and bam, $5! Guess I need to work on parts for a newer build than my 8088+486.. got 4x 1gb sticks coming to fill it out. Battery is probably toast but I dont care about that.

Wow.. I like it 😁

CelGen wrote:

These three bundles of coax are the first step towards building a 10BASE5 network. Next up is sourcing the Vampire Taps.

Hahahaha takes me back to 2001 or so when I set a 10b5 network to play with some *old* Microdyne Exos205 cards... only AAUI and coax connectors, and good luck finding AAUI transceivers even back then...

I think I may still have some taps and terminators somewhere (God knows where, it would probably take me weeks to find them).

Dammit, I can't stop buying classic CoolerMaster Cases 🤣 I think this completes my collection for now.

This may house my Athlon X2 3800+ build. However, just a little worried about the 80mm rear fan being a tad small.

I looked for a micro-ATX 875P motherboard to play around with. That is a very limiting restriction, and it turns out that they end up typically being industrial boards. But I found a "P4CMX-01" motherboard. Information for this thing is rather scarce aside from the Corvalent source themselves, but the eBay seller claims it's new. Based on the contents of the guide, it should have an ICH5 southbridge, which will suit my requirements nicely.

This is the listing:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/222221573050

This is the PDF guide:
ftp://support.corvalent.com/P4CAX-P4CMX/Docs/MN-P4CMX-01.pdf

I'll report my findings.

SaxxonPike wrote:

I looked for a micro-ATX 875P motherboard to play around with. That is a very limiting restriction, and it turns out that they e […]
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I looked for a micro-ATX 875P motherboard to play around with. That is a very limiting restriction, and it turns out that they end up typically being industrial boards. But I found a "P4CMX-01" motherboard. Information for this thing is rather scarce aside from the Corvalent source themselves, but the eBay seller claims it's new. Based on the contents of the guide, it should have an ICH5 southbridge, which will suit my requirements nicely.

This is the listing:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/222221573050

This is the PDF guide:
ftp://support.corvalent.com/P4CAX-P4CMX/Docs/MN-P4CMX-01.pdf

I'll report my findings.

By then pics and looking the southbridge size, this motherboard doesn't have the ICH5, rather the server variant of it (ICH5R though) which is the Intel 6300ESB which provides PCI-X slots as well. The 6300ESB despite begin designed for Xeon chipsets, it can be paried theorically with any chipset which supports the ICH5. I remember seeing the 6300ESB beging paried mostly with 875P or even the mobile chipset i855GM which is desiged for Pentium M

Its been a while since I've posted (house building, etc).

I stopped by my local university surplus store, found a SB16 SCSI card for $1. Nice find, since my other SB16 SCSI card died after a stray rivet from the old case found its way onto the PCB while transportation and killed it when I turned the computer on.

$1 replacement works for me! Funny though, the dead SB16 SCSI card, the SCSI still works! Just the sound card portion of it doesn't. Maybe someone here wants to fix it? 🤣

Carlos S. M. wrote:

By then pics and looking the southbridge size, this motherboard doesn't have the ICH5, rather the server variant of it (ICH5R though) which is the Intel 6300ESB which provides PCI-X slots as well. The 6300ESB despite begin designed for Xeon chipsets, it can be paried theorically with any chipset which supports the ICH5. I remember seeing the 6300ESB beging paried mostly with 875P or even the mobile chipset i855GM which is desiged for Pentium M

Thanks for the information! This is incredibly helpful.

PeterLI wrote:

Bought a 2920XM for $140 today. 🤣

Will upgrade my W520 with it.

Nice score! Just be warned that proc puts out a lot of heat and it will peg all 4 cores to 3.2ghz turbo until you load it down regardless of temps. Had to turn the turbo off on mine to keep the thermals in check because it would go into the upper 90s while playing games.

^on throttling, I used ThrottleStop for that purpose. Great tool. I had to use it to prevent both the GPU and CPU overheating at the same time (which would immediately triggered a safety shut off -- a known issue with ASUS G73 series). But since I blew and vacuumed the intake and exhaust vents it's been doing great and even now with Win10 I don't have to run the tool anymore.

This ThinkPad T41 came in today, i thought it looked to good to toss it.




It was barrely used for a study, that's why it's in a good condition except for a huge sticker on the front which is removeable with patience i guess.
I have no idea yet what to do with it though.

Bought my step-mother a cheap used fx4100 to upgrade her old unlocked Sempron 145. Should make a great bday present

FuzzyLogic wrote:

That's really going retro.

I'm one of those people who think that "retrocomputing" on a P4 "retro rig" is absolute heresy. 😉

I might have overpaid for this a bit, especially since I don't really know what to do with it 😀 But it is cool because it's so complete! I'm not sure if the CD belongs with it though. I paid about 20 euro including shipping.

Solarstorm wrote:

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I have no idea yet what to do with it though.

They are great, those old machines. I have one like that, with XP that are for my children.
I have another one with one gig of ram and sempron mobile with Xubuntu installed on.
Though it is a Packard Bell instead.

Good find never the less.

Cyrix200+ wrote:

I might have overpaid for this a bit, especially since I don't really know what to do with it :) But it is cool because it's so […]
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I might have overpaid for this a bit, especially since I don't really know what to do with it 😀 But it is cool because it's so complete! I'm not sure if the CD belongs with it though. I paid about 20 euro including shipping.

😜 😜 😜